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Seeley, Pamela

Birth Name Seeley, Pamela
Nick Name Pam
Married Name Lynch, Pamela
Gender female

Events

Event Date Place Description Sources
Birth 30 July 1953 Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England   1a
Emigration 4 September 1966 Perth, Western Australia, Australia Qantas 2a 3a
Author 1 March 2018   How The Hell Did I Get Here? by Pamela Lynch 4a

Parents

Relation to main person Name Birth date Death date Relation within this family (if not by birth)
Father Seeley, Eric Herbert31 July 192728 February 2018
Mother Bellamy, Evelyn Edith9 May 193014 September 2006
         Seeley, Pamela 30 July 1953
    Brother     Seeley, Garry 13 August 1957

Families

Family of Lynch, Phillip John and Seeley, Pamela
Married Husband Lynch, Phillip John ( * 16 June 1951 + ... )
   
Event Date Place Description Sources
Marriage 16 September 1972 St Benedicts Church, 115, Ardross Street, Ardross, Western Australia, Australia   5a

Priest: Father Albert Lynch (Phillip's uncle[?])

Divorce 5 October 2005 Perth, Western Australia, Australia   5a
  Children
Name Birth Date Death Date
Lynch, Kathryn Yvonne24 April 1974
Lynch, Nicole Suzanne14 December 1976

Narrative

Words from the Back cover of Pamela's 2018 memoir, How The Hell Did I Get Here?

At the age of 40, simply looking for something to keep her mind occupied, Pamela Lynch enrolled in an Arts degree at the University of Western Australia.

What followed was an unexpected fifteen-year journey that culminated in a PhD in Classics and Ancient History. A journey of discovery that would have repercussions she could never have imagined. Not content to take life easy after her Doctorate, Pamela decided to trek to Everest Base Camp to celebrate her 60th birthday.

Having achieved this most physical of challenges, for some unknown reason, even to herself, she decided to go back to Nepal two years later to take on a much more difficult route through the Himalayas.

This trek didn't go as planned and Pamela was still in Kathmandu when, on 25th April 2015, a 7.8 magnitude earthquake, the largest in over eighty years, struck Nepal.

In How The Hell Did I Get Here? Pamela takes us on both her physical, outward journey through the Himalayas and her inner journey over the last 25 years that now sees her, at 64, as a firm advocate for seeing, doing and experiencing life, as much and as often as we can.
"I was there, I was part of it. Nepal was shaken, I was shaken, but I don't regret one step of my journey."